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Dutch Kills Press recently released 2020: Good Writing from a Bad Year, an e-book anthology edited by alumnus Gordon Haber '02.
Alumnus Rafiq Kathwari '00 recently published his newest collection of poems, My Mother's Scribe, with Yoda Press.
Associate Professor Susan Bernofsky was among the featured speakers at The Universidad Diego Portales’ symposium on literary translation. Bernofsky joined several other speakers in conversation about the act of creating space for reflection in and around the art of literary translation.
Alumnus Daniel Felsenthal '15 has been awarded a Fellowship Grant from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture to support his research for an essay on W.G. Sebald's novel Austerlitz.
Soon After First Light is a series where we talk craft, process, and pandemic with Columbia's accomplished writing professors.
"Other Significant Others: A Glossary," a short story by fiction student Gauraa Shekhar, has recently been nominated for the 2021 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers by Nimrod Journal.
Our Word recently hosted poet Tracy K. Smith '97 and fiction writer Paige Morris for a panel on translation, race, and gender called Translating Identity.
Here, we talk with Associate Professor of Writing and Director of Literary Translation at Columbia (LTAC) Susan Bernofsky about her translation of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, how a single word can illuminate important artistic tendencies, and her approaches to teaching translation.
The National Arts Club hosted an evening with Writing Professor Phillip Lopate ’64 (CC), accompanied by Vivian Gornick and Wayne Koestenbaum to discuss Lopate’s latest anthology, The Glorious American Essay.
NPR's Book Concierge recently released its list of best books of 2020, naming several titles by School of the Arts alumni and faculty among them.
Adjunct Assistant Professor and alumna Katrine Øgaard Jensen ’17 was selected for the Danish Arts Foundation’s two-year fellowship ‘The Young Artistic Elite.’
Alumnus Cyrée Jarelle Johnson '19 has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Split this Rock for their poem, "chewbacca was the blackest part of The Force Awakens."
